iranians don't fear us at all. they're trying to attack us here at home. i would argue that iraq and afghanistan is being run out of chicago. >> and if you just take, for example, the gadhafi example, there are a number of republicans who had a lot of difficulty giving the president any credit, and he had to -- they sort of had to backtrack and then say, oh, but we support our troops there. do they risk coming off with independent voters as just too extreme anti obama? >> i don't think so. i mean, i think that, you know -- first of all, i think senator graham does make a point if you look at israel and iran, those are still important countries and problematic issues in both cases. i do think that republicans, a lot of republicans, haven't really given president obama the due credit that i think he deserves and the example of, say, gadhafi. there are other issues. iraq, by the way, who knows what's going to happen there. i mean, if things go well, obama very well may get credit ultimately. if they don't, if it sort of descends into sectarian violence it cou